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How the Dead Live, <i>October 2000</i>

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Michiko Kakutani of <i>The New York Times</i> has written that British novelist Will Self renders even the most bizarre, 'Twilight Zone'-like events with convincing verisimilitude while enthralling -- a, How the Dead Live has a rating of 4 stars
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How the Dead Live, October 2000 Soul Spectator Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times has written that British novelist Will Self renders even the most bizarre, 'Twilight Zone'-like events with convincing verisimilitude while enthralling -- a, How the Dead Live
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  • How the Dead Live
  • Written by author Will Self
  • Published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc., August 2001
  • October 2000 Soul Spectator Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times has written that British novelist Will Self "renders even the most bizarre, 'Twilight Zone'-like events with convincing verisimilitude while enthralling -- a
  • Will Self has one of literature's most astonishing imaginations, and in How the Dead Live his talent has come to full flower. Lily Bloom is an angry, aging American transplanted to England, now losing her battle with cancer. Attended by nurses and her two
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Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times has written that British novelist Will Self "renders even the most bizarre, 'Twilight Zone'-like events with convincing verisimilitude while enthralling -- and often horrifying -- the reader with his Swiftian humor." In How the Dead Live, the third novel by the author of Great Apes, Self paints an unforgettable portrait of the human condition. How the Dead Live is a work that will disturb, astonish, provoke, and quite possibly change how we talk about death.

Lily Bloom is an aging American transplanted to England who has lost her battle with cancer and lies wasting away at the Royal Ear Hospital. As her two daughters -- lumpy Charlotte, who runs a hugely successful chain of stationery stores called Waste of Paper, and beautiful Natasha, a junkie -- buzz around her and the nurses pump her full of morphine, Lily slides in and out of the present, taking us on a surreal, opinionated, stage-by-stage trip through a lifetime of lust and rage. A career girl in the 1940s, a sexed-up, tippling adulteress in the 1950s and '60s, a divorced PR flack in the 1970s and '80s, Lily presents us with a portrait of America and England over 60 years of riotous and unreal change.

And then, it's over: Lily catches a cab with the Aboriginal wizard Phar Lap Jones, her guide to the shockingly banal world of the dead. It is a dreamlike world, and yet it is familiar: She works again in PR and rediscovers how great smoking is. In this world, her cohabitants include Ride Boy, the son who died at age nine and swears a blue streak, as well as three eyeless, murmuring wraiths -- the Fats -- composed of the pounds, literally the whole selves, she lost and gained over her lifetime. As Lily settles into her nonexistence, the most difficult challenge for this staunchly difficult woman is how to understand that she's dead, and how to leave the rest behind.

Be sure to join us for our live chat with Will Self. Find out how the dead really live.


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